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Measles Summary

Description: A highly contagious infectious disease caused by MORBILLIVIRUS, common among children but also seen in the nonimmune of any age, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and multiplies in the epithelial cells, spreading throughout the MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM.

Also Known As: Rubeola

Networked: 5274 relevant articles (261 outcomes, 588 trials/studies) for this Disease

Key Drugs and Agents for Measles

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Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to treatments:
  1. Vaccines : 64 outcomes 142 studies in 1067 results : IBA
  2. Measles Vaccine : 45 outcomes 67 studies in 541 results : IBA
  3. Vitamin A (Retinol) : 26 outcomes 42 studies in 207 results : FDA 33 Generic
  4. Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine (MMR Vaccine) : 21 outcomes 46 studies in 477 results : IBA
  5. Antibodies : 18 outcomes 93 studies in 1048 results : IBA
  6. Immunoglobulin M (IgM) : 12 outcomes 25 studies in 331 results : IBA
  7. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) : 10 outcomes 45 studies in 525 results : IBA
  8. Antigens : 10 outcomes 32 studies in 403 results : IBA
  9. Rubella Vaccine : 6 outcomes 15 studies in 304 results : IBA
  10. RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) : 5 outcomes 9 studies in 91 results : IBA
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Diseases Related to Measles

  1. Rubella (German Measles)
  2. Mumps
  3. Infection
  4. Poliomyelitis (Polio)
  5. Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
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Key Therapies for Measles

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  1. Prenatal Care : 2 outcomes in 7 results
  2. Injections : 1 outcome 2 studies in 27 results
  3. Heterologous Transplantation (Xenotransplantation) : 1 outcome 2 studies in 9 results
  4. Day Care (Partial Hospitalization) : 1 outcome 1 study in 15 results
  5. Aftercare (After-Treatment) : 1 outcome 1 study in 9 results
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